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Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

S.R. 2004/167 · Made 24 March 2004

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE

Made 24th March 2004

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation 17th May 2004

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 14, 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1, and now vested in himf2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”

f2

S.I. 1982/159

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Amendment to the principal regulations
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 17th May 2004.

2Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal regulations” means the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981f1.

3Amendment to the principal regulations

In regulation 7(3) of the principal regulations for the words “a man and a woman who are living with each other in the same household as husband and wife” there shall be substituted “the person concerned and anyone with whom the person concerned normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex,”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Lord Filkin

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Dated 24th March 2004

We approve

John Heppell

Jim Murphy

Two of the Lord’s Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 1st April 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend regulation 7(3) of the Legal Aid (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981 to provide that the resources of the person concerned and anyone with whom the person concerned normally resides as a couple, including a person of the same sex, are to be treated as the resources of the person concerned for the purpose of determining financial eligibility for legal aid under Part II of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.